OMG Hosts Web Services for the Integrated Enterprise Call for Presentations.

Business/Technology Editors

NEEDHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 7, 2002

The Object Management Group announces a call for presentations for its two 2003 Web Services Workshops focusing on Modeling, Architecture, Infrastructure and Standards. The first workshop will be located in Europe, February 10 -13, 2003 and the second will take place on the U.S. West Coast, March 10 -13, 2003.

The Workshops are open to all with an interest in, and understanding of, Web Services technologies, architectures, modeling solutions and standards. The four-day program will consist of tutorials in Web Services, followed by sessions and open panel discussions that describe case studies and technology issues and choices for enterprise applications that were designed using industry standards and specifications.

The Workshop Program Committee is seeking proposals for presentations or panels addressing any of the following topics for each event:

-- Case Studies: Using Web Services in Software Development

-- Web Services Standards

-- Tools

-- Architectures

-- E-Business Development

-- Methodologies

-- Technologies

-- State of the art and the Future of Web Services

For complete details on each of these topics, see http://www.omg.org/news/meetings/webservices2003/call.htm

INSTRUCTIONS

Interested individuals or organizations are invited to submit a brief abstract of the presentation or position paper they are proposing, including a brief biography of the presenter. Please note the workshop venue(s) and dates for which the proposal is being submitted. You may submit for one or both. (Submitters are highly encouraged to consider presenting at both workshop venues.) Abstract length should be no longer than 1 page. Abstracts must be sent in your choice of HTML, PDF or ASCII text formats. No more than 3 abstracts per individual will be accepted for consideration. Biographies should be no longer than 50 words. This information should be submitted via email to [e-mail], by October 28, 2002.

About The OMG

With well-established standards covering software from design and development, through deployment and maintenance, and extending to evolution to future platforms, the Object Management Group (OMG) supports a full-lifecycle approach to enterprise integration which maximizes ROI, the key to successful IT. Based on the Model Driven Architecture (MDA), OMG's standards cover multiple operating systems, programming languages, middleware and networking infrastructures, and software development environments. OMG's Modeling standards, the basis for the MDA, include the Unified Modeling Language (UML) and Common Warehouse Metamodel (CWM). CORBA, the Common Object Request Broker Architecture, is OMG's standard open platform with hundreds of millions of deployments running today. OMG's well-established CORBAservices and industry-specific standards are being re-issued under the MDA in many popular middleware environments. OMG domain (industry-specific) standards cover vertical markets including healthcare, telecommunications, biotechnology, transportation and a dozen other areas. The OMG is headquartered in Needham, MA, USA, with

a U.S. government representative in Washington, DC, and international marketing offices in Japan, the UK, and Germany.

The Object Management Group is an international, open membership, not-for-profit computer industry specifications consortium. OMG member companies write, adopt, and maintain the organization's standards following a mature, open process. All current OMG specifications may be downloaded without charge from the organization's website, www.omg.org; the site also provides additional information about OMG and its activities. For information on joining the OMG, or questions not addressed on the website, please contact OMG headquarters by email at [e-mail], by phone at [phone], or by fax at [phone]. The OMG provides current information and services for distributed enterprise computing through The Information Brokerage(R) service on the World Wide Web at www.omg.org and www.corba.org.

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